Aquarius-Let's Go Fishin'

[sheralmyst]

Done!

[toddumptious]

I have every legendary in the final fish biome except the smoke monster and the spider next to it. I’m officially out of lure and have depleted all my stores of gamma root for making the ingredients of the Legendary Lures so I think it’s time to build a lure specific farm next to the fishing shack mansion

[sheralmyst]

Is there 1 Legendary in each biome?

[toddumptious]

There’s several in each biome as well as the ones you can catch in any biome so you’ve a pool of 8 legendary to pull from per planet counting the any-biome Legendarys.

the last 4 in a biomes section in the Fishing Records are Legendarys

I have 2 Legendarys left on the current biome I’m working on, so a 2 in 8 chance that if my catch is a legendary, it will be the one i want. Obviously the chance is much lower as legendary bait will also catch fish from the rare and uncommon pools.

Also not sure what the chances for legendary are, wether they are all equal chance or some Legendarys are rarer than others.

For example, in the final biome I’ve caught two of the four Legendarys, one of those I caught once and the other I’ve caught three times.

[escapade]

Decided to try fishing with space-edibles on a lark

[toddumptious]

Oh wow, that’s one good cookie! I made a few different kinds and none of em broke the 20% barrier.

Will have to try these out.

I have now caught every fish in the final biome on the list EXCEPT the unique smoke cloud whatevery Legendary.

I’ve been fishing in 100u depths but I’m wondering if these last Legendarys are deeper, or maybe they require a very specific lure?

Because I’ve also caught all the fish in the “all habitats” biome list except for one legendary…

So either one legendary in each biome group has a very low catch rate compared to the other Legendarys in their grouping, or they have different requirements related to lure and depth.

I’m gonna keep at the same spot for another day then move on to trying to make new lure and get to deeper haunted oceans.

I haven’t posted the lore for the expedition yet because I’ve realised some of the legendary fish also add or broaden stuff we already know in the lore. I wanna get as much of those the old fashioned way first before making a big post in the worlds Lore Thread.

Edit:

I checked the datamined updated text/string log for Aquarius and it lists all the fish and their descriptions for legendary, if I can’t get all the fish I can at least copy/paste what I’m missing from there.

I did see one thing that stood out and it’s something we may be able to try in game right now.

Spoilers for the final fish biome if you haven’t found it yet, as well as datamined spoilers not in game yet.

So the fish in these biomes, description says they’re haunted. Or their home world is.

One of the message descriptors seemingly related to the new Aquarius boss (giant jellyfish) says

“Released a haunted fish”

So I’m gonna give this a shot I also haven’t tried cooking any haunted fish maybe they give unique item or are good in their OG state as lure? Probably just gives same as other fish types with same image but I have more to experiment with today than I thought

@sheralmyst below, haha I will be now

[sheralmyst]

I used to have an aquarium. First thing I learned, if a fish can get his mouth around another fish, he will eat it. Have you tried other fish as bait?

[sheralmyst]

[sheralmyst]

NMSA-CaptainSteve

[toddumptious]

I set up a base for manufacturing Caramel Ice cream (fishing lure with rarity boost of 76%). I thought someone might like to make use of it.

The machines outside farm milk and eggs from creatures. Inside the base are message modules describing ingredients needed, and steps required if ingredients require other ingredients.

The only thing you’ll need to explore for are pulpy/sweet root for rootjuice and sugar, I built close to an area where I found a few of these nodes.

You will also have the choice of using frozen tubers or frostwort crystal with the ingredients for Caramel Ice Cream, so if you need those, either/or is close by too.

Milk will be made into cream.
Cream, sugar( from sweet root) and eggs will make viscous custard.
Crunchy Caramel (from rootjuice), frost crystal (or frozen tubers) and viscous custard will make Carmel Ice Cream

I’m still working on its overall design and will be adding a fishing dock and interior deco but for now it’s fit for purpose and working as intended

I’m gonna take a break from building it for now and try catch some rare Legendarys with all this Ice Cream

[Clemm]

Nice! I haven’t even started fishing yet, but this is super.

[sheralmyst]

Caught @toddumptious hard at work in the ice cream parlor.

[toddumptious]

I couldn’t figure out how to type into the chat for PS5 I was actually just stacking the nutrient processor and popping off for a smoke break when you appeared, thought I had scanned in an autophage for a minute somehow

[toddumptious]

I have a full set of legendary fish in the “all biomes” category and three legendary in the final biome category.

I’ve noticed the 4 legendary in the completed category go small, medium, large and collosus in size

The 4 in final uncompleted category goes ???, medium, large, collosus.

Other biome category’s where I’ve caught 2 legendary, I can see it follows the same pattern. (All the different class types also follow this ordering in the list)

Which explains why my chance for this final unique looking mystery Legendary fish guy has been so low in the final biome. I’ve only been fishing in deepest waters so less chance of a shallow guy showing up (not impossible).

Fishing in shallow water will sky rocket the likelihood of that small legendary showing up and should negate most other legendarys from entering the catch lotto.

I wasn’t expecting the only fish with a unique shillouete to be a small legendary but I should’ve have noticed the pattern sooner. Wish I did before using 100 caramel ice cream lures

[sheralmyst]

Back to the ice cream parlor! You can do it!

[toddumptious]

I went out with 100 ice cream lures and after using 60 and getting zero Legendarys I realised the planet and the lure were working against me.

During storms, storm fish enter the chance pool, and at night the caramel ice cream lures bonus increases chance of night fish it seems to almost completely obliterate the chances of Legendary (it’s bonus is being removed next patch )

So I stopped the brute force method and started chasing daylight across the planet and only fishing shallow waters when the weather was calm

Only took six tries and the little mite finally appeared

Spoilers!!! for the one unique fish type that has no variants in other biomes, be careful

I heeded the warning

But I’m thinking better advice would have been to just destroy it… Now I can’t stop thinking about it still out there, in the water, waiting to be beached or caught or just hatch anyway

Now I can focus on fishing other biomes instead of chasing this elusive pokefish

[sheralmyst]

Hatch it! Hatch it! Hatch it!

[sheralmyst]

I feel a bit overwhelmed by this whole fishing experience.

[toddumptious]

I keep thining that wave is a painted snowy mountainscape

[toddumptious]

Im having a real hard time catching Legendarys from the Frost biomes. I’ve only caught the collosus so far, spent a while fishing in shallows to lower the amount of legendary fish and I kept catching “any biome” Legendarys.

That or this planet hates me.

Anyone else finding the frozen fish variants a little less common than the rest?

edit: Whoops, I thought I posted this in the aquarius thread